Hannah Arendt Quotes

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

You have to fight against being an antique.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place.

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

You have to live in your times.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

One must be of one's own time.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.